Switch it around and have a good portion of the north try and secceed from the Union. Only for the loyalist slave holding South to win.South wins the Civil War and somehow takes over the US. (ASB prob)
Switch it around and have a good portion of the north try and secceed from the Union. Only for the loyalist slave holding South to win.South wins the Civil War and somehow takes over the US. (ASB prob)
What about a surviving Confederacy, which is improbably but not impossible?South wins the Civil War and somehow takes over the US. (ASB prob)
Interesting idea: how about a "anarchist scare" instead? For example, what if McKinley had been assassinated by a radicalized black man who had blamed him for the failure of Reconstruction? The twin spectre of anarchist terrorism and racial separatism could be something that might tip America towards an even worse turn-of-the-century.inb4 "it's white supremacist right now" (i partially subscribe to this, in the sense that minority rights and recognition are even today clearly...negotiable, but I'm able to type this to you and I haven't picked a gram of cotton in my life, so...)
Anyway, you really need a more openly Communist CRM; that was part of why South Africa could get away with Apartheid for so long, easy to scare the fence-sitters with the Red Bogeyman (it didn't work in the USA because the NAACP and other outlets were really good at respectability politics)
Again, it isn't. There's a wide gulf between having issues with race, as a nation, and being a white-supremacist nation.
Would you care to elaborate? Personally I would put Japan, for instance, in the "having issues with race as a nation" category and the United States in the "white-supremacist nation" category.
I think it means a United America.What about a surviving Confederacy, which is improbably but not impossible?
I think if the north left in a huff but can't manage to pry away the Midwest America could develop into a real white supremacist state that keeps slavery well past its OTL end date and minorities have it quite a bit worse than OTL.